It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A dad issued a warning over spiders in the UK - after a false widow bite left him arthritic when his limbs ballooned. Brian Smith had woken ...

A dad was told his hand might need to be cut off after he was bitten by a suspected false widow spider in his sleep. Brian Smith, 43, from Maidstone, Kent, is warning others about venomous insects ...

Parental care might help invasive brown widow spiders spread. Valeria Arabesky and colleagues at Ben-Gurion University of the ...

Like opossum, raccoon and skunk, rattlesnakes and black widow spiders adapt to urban development rather than leave the area. That makes it more likely they'll come into contact with humans ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A dad issued a warning over spiders in the UK - after a false widow bite left him arthritic when his limbs ballooned. Brian Smith had woken up ...